Amusement device



INVENTOR- A/en' E L lndgal'af IIllll A. E. LINDQUIST' AMUSEMENT DEVICE Filed June ATTORNEY July 7, 1925.

Patented July 7, 1925.

UNITED STATES ALBERT E. LINDQUIST, or OUN VERNON, wasrrmcron.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

' Application filed June 21, 1924. Serial No. 721,537.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT E. LIND UTST, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of Skagit and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Amusement Devices, of which. the following is a specification.

This invention-relates to amusement de-'. vices and, more-especially, to games such as fortune telling.

The object of my invention is the provision of devices of this character which may be played by any number of people and which will provide entertainment for both young and older people.

The invention consists in the novel construction, adaptation and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing,-

Figure 1 is a view, partly in front elevation and partly in vertical longitudinal sec tion of devices embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a set of tickets and the holder thereof shown removed from the case, a portion of the holder being broken away and shown in section. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view on line 1- 1 of Figs. 1 and 2.

In said drawing the reference numeral 5 represents, generally, a case having a top 6, sides 7 ends 8 and a bottom 9 which is hingedly connected at 10 to one of the case sides 7 whereby the bottom may be swung into its open position. Said bottom is normally secured in the closed position in which it is represented in Figs. 1 and 2 by means of a suitable key-controlled look, as 11.

I11 the illustrated embodiment there are provided two series, A and B Fig. 2, of cards 12 or tickets, as hereinafter termed, of oblong shapes and of somewhat greater lengths than the depth of the case 5. The tickets 12 of each of said series are arranged in vertically disposed groups within containers 13 which latter of each series are enclosed by a carton 14.

15 represents a strip of flexible material, preferably of cloth, which is pasted or otherwise secured to a carton and constitutes the bottom thereof. The strip 15 is furthermore pasted to the lower ends of the containers 13 and the tickets therein for uniting the same to the respective carton.

, respective groups Adjacent their lower ends the tickets are each formed with a weakened section such as by perforating the same or, as shown, by making incisions 16 into their opposite sides, said incisions are advantageously provided by cuts 17 made through the side walls of both the containers and cartons.

The portions 18 of the tickets below the cuts 16 are'pasted one toanother. Each end 8 of the caseis provided with a groove-19 (Fig. 4) to receive an end of a carton for maintaining thesame in a vertical position. The height of a carton is such that when supported upon the casing bottom 9 the upper end of the carton will engage as at 20 against the underside of the casing top 6. The top is provided longitudinally of the case with a slot 21 for each series of tickets, said slots each being of a width equal. to the width of a ticket.

The tickets are of lengths to protrude a distance above the case suitably to be grasped singly in the hands of a player to enable him to extract from the case the portion of a ticket above the weakened section thereof.

The various tickets are provided with symbols or legends such as 22 or 23 (Fig. 2), for example, indicative of the luck or fortune of the player. 7

The containers 13, one for each group of tickets, provide partitions in the carton which prevent a player from seeing the symbols or the like upon a ticket before removing the same from the case.

With the tickets arranged as shown in two series or rows, one row may be employed for males'and the other row for females so as to make the fortunes more appropriate.

While I have illustrated a construction with two rows of tickets, I do not wish to confine myself to any particular number.

What I claim, is,

1. In apparatus of the character de scribed, a series of tickets each having a weakened section adjacent one end thereof, a carton into which portions of said tickets extend, partitions provided in said carton to separate the tickets into groups, a case inclosing said carton and having a slot through which the tickets extend, said slot being of less width than the carton to prevent the latter passing therethrough, means for uniting the portions of the tickets of the below the weakened sections thereof, and means for securing such portions of the tickets to the carton.

2. In apparatus as defined in claim 1,.

wherein the bottom of the case is hingedly connected to one of the side walls thereof, and the distance between said bottom and the top of the case is equal approximately to the height of the carton.

3. In apparatus as defined in claim 1 wherein the end Walls of the case are provided with grooves to receive the respective ends of the cart-on whereby the latter is held in position to retain the tickets in operative relations with the case-slot.

i. In apparatus of the character described, a series of tickets each having a weakened section adjacent one end thereof, containers for groups of said tickets, the portions of the tickets below the weakened sections being secured together in the re-- spective groups, a carton enclosing said containers, means for securing the containers within the carton, a case for the carton, said case having in the top thereof a, slot through which the tickets extend, and means engaging the carton within the case for maintainingthe carton and the tickets in operative relations with respect tosaid slot.

5. In apparatus of the character described, a series of tickets each having a weakened section adjacent one end thereof, a carton into which portions of said tickets extend, partitions provided in said carton to separate the ticketsinto gronps,means for uniting the portions of the tickets of the respective groups: below the weakened sections thereof, and means for securing such portions of the tickets: to the carton.

Signed at Mount Vernon, WVashington, this 5th day of June 192.4.

' ALBERT ELINDQUIST. Witnesses:

N. B. HANNAY, R. G.'HANNAFORD. 

